Lydia Foy began legal fight for recognition in 1997

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Lydia Foy began legal fight for recognition in 1997

JAMIE SMYTH

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0622/1224273030054.html

"I WAS treated very, very badly . . . I feel let down by the system. There should have been a learning curve from way back," says Lydia Foy, the former dentist who has fought a tough 13-year battle to win legal recognition as a woman.

Dr Foy was born Donal Mark Foy in 1947 and registered at birth as male. But from an early age, she felt different.

"I was small and fair and my younger brother was tall and dark and you'd know he was a man . . . I was, I suppose, androgenous," she says.